Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2010

In addition to being a well-organized, clear writer, Morris is a Renaissance man who always sprinkles his writings and interviews with thoughtful insights drawn from remarkably diverse fields of knowledge. Check out his book reviews and interviews at this link and you’ll see what what I mean. Military Gamification in Everything?

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Cooper McCarthy Godin Middle Management 218

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

Performance assessment is a cooperative thing In order for a performance assessment to be effective, both the leader and the individual must participate. In our top-down, manager-knows-all world, we’re a long way from coaching by the leadership being a required skill. So, what to do? This is as it should be. A conversation.

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Performance Review Review PR Blanchard 40

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

One key area of leadership skill involves coaching. Copyright 2010. Another problem that makes people skills hard to acquire is that the learning isn’t well supported by books, videos and courses. I’ve read dozens of books on people skills, and the best of these focus on only a handful of key skills. Post by Dennis E. Coates, Ph.D.,

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Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Instead of institution-based siloes and command-and-control, Ebola demands the collective problem-solving and action of a virtual community — and the mobilization of an entire ecosystem of diverse players. Creating such a cross-boundary community will call for a different kind of leadership than we have seen thus far. That’s important.

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Crisis Crisis Management Uncertainty Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. Investors are wary of this approach.

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